Contractor. Elscot Boat Works Inc., Brooklyn, New York, USA
Percentage of completion on 1 May 1942: 80.0
Percentage of completion gain for April 1942: 5.0
Laid down: 12 September 1941
Launched: 25 April 1942
Number of months between keel laying and completion:
Date of completion as per contract or order: 26 January 1942
Date of completion as reported by building yard on 11 January 1941: 16 February 1942
Date of completion as last reported by building yard: 29 May 1942
Months 11 January 1941 prediction: 3.4 behind
Note
1. Contract awarded on 30 June 1941, commissioned on 10 July 1942, became property of the Baltimore Police Department in 1958, renamed William F. Broening on 26 November 1958, sold in 1970 and became the private owned yacht Volo II, since 1973 wrecking boat, last known in 1976.
Sources
Franklin Roosevelt D. Roosevelt Presidential Library&Museum. Bureau of Ships: reports 1 May 1942 FDR’s President’s Secretary’s Files (psfc000095).
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